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More women should adopt positions of authority, says Jerry

By Jerry Nelson - 19th October 2009 10:42 pm

Saw a thing on the internet this week about how women doctors need more support to become leaders. That’s certainly true. If they’re going to stand for high office, the last thing they want is a badly fitting bra!!! Hahahahaha!!!

I said: the last thing they want…oh never mind.

Anyway, this is somewhat apposite, as the job of Medical Director has come up after the previous incumbent took an enforced sabbatical of five to seven years with eligibility for parole after three. And my spies tell me the luscious Gabrielle is thinking of standing.

Gabrielle, as those of you who don’t live an a cave will remember, is the posh totty anaesthetist who I have been trying to get to do my lists for ages, but failed partly because the lovely G seems to want to spend all day watching Dweeb Urologist Johnson looking up old mens’ todgers, but mainly because of the intransigence of Dan The Fat Gasman, who won’t stand (or waddle) aside.

Dan has been even more insufferable than usual because he’s just got back from holiday with his ‘hot’ new girlfriend. Can you imagine how ‘cuddly’ she’s going to be?! Says I’ll be jealous when I see the holiday pics. Only if I’m a Japanese whaler, I replied. Hahahaha! God I’m good. 

He’s bringing them in tomorrow. More likely to die laughing than through envy…

Anyway, I think G would make an excellent Medical Director, because the combination of her being posh, hot-looking, strict, and in charge of me would be the single biggest boon to my health since they invented that (cough) gentlemen’s medication that I sometimes take. (Cough).

So anyway, sidled up to her in the coffee room, and said how I though we should have more women in positions of authority, and how the profession really ought to be removing some of the barriers to progression, which went down really well. I then suggested a few things she might like to do if she were appointed, like closing the Urology department, and putting a weight limit on anaesthetists working in the trust. She seemed to really like my ideas!

So, fingers crossed! (Cough).

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